Andrena is a wireless internet company that co-founded the DAWN decentralized broadband protocol on Solana. Andrena's Twitter Score is 32 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #30,271 (top 10%) among 483,288 tracked accounts.
Andrena was founded by Neil Chatterjee as CEO, James Smits as Chief Product Officer, and Nick De Veaux. The company raised a $15 million Series A announced in February 2023, led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Afore Capital, FJ Labs, Castle Island Ventures, Blockchange Ventures, CMT Digital, and others. An additional $18 million round followed in August 2024 to develop DAWN, and a $13 million Series B led by Polychain Capital was reported in Q4 2025.
Andrena's DAWN protocol, short for Decentralized Autonomous Wireless Network, is built around a DePIN model that allows users to monetize excess internet bandwidth. The network operates a validator browser extension within a proof-of-bandwidth ecosystem. VanEck Ventures and VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha Fund invested $2.5 million in DAWN in December 2024. In January 2025, DAWN announced a partnership with the Helium Network to integrate 8,000 DAWN nodes. Smart-contract audits with two independent firms were completed during Q4 2025, and a Solana testnet launch was targeted for Q1 2026 per the January 2026 roadmap.
Andrena's additional backers include Escape Velocity, Wintermute Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Lattice, Syncracy Capital, Archetype, Chaos Ventures, KohFounders, J Ventures, Moonshot Research, and Frictionless Capital. The @andrena_wifi account currently directs users to @dawninternet while retaining Andrena customer-support contact details. Andrena has been mentioned by 45 accounts a total of 69 times, and the account has published 69 posts.
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The accounts that follow Andrena include 104 founders, 40 angel investors, 39 influencers and 8 VCs. Among them are Ansem, Nic Carter, Santiago R Santos, Yano, Mario Nawfal and CoinMarketCap.